SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- IBIS Source Code Escrow and Verification
- Notice Date
- 7/18/2005
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 561499
— All Other Business Support Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Justice, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF), Acquisition and Property Management Division, 650 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., Room 3290, Washington, DC, 20226
- ZIP Code
- 20226
- Solicitation Number
- BATFIBIS071805
- Response Due
- 8/3/2005
- Archive Date
- 8/18/2005
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), has a requirement for a vendor to provide source code escrow services for the IBIS System source code for the IBIS systems used by the Government. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation: technical cost proposal are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. This is a ?fixed-price/time and material requirement? which is listed in the Statement of Work under Task 1 and Task 2. The following provisions are applicable to this acquisition: (a) FAR 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors-Commercial, (b) FAR 52.212-4 Contract Terms and Conditions-Commercial Items, (c) FAR 52.212-5, Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Status or Executive Orders-Commercial Items, (d) FAR 52.217-09 Option to Extend the Terms of the Contract. The anticipated period of performance will cover one (1) year from date of award, with four (4) optional year periods (to be exercised at the discretion of the Government). The quoted pricing format will include pricing for the base year and all option years (1 through 4) in the prescribed format. Award will be made utilizing the simplified acquisition procedure under FAR Part 12 & 13. This requirement is a Small Business Set-aside. Interested parties must be registered in the Central Contractor Registration Database (CCR) as prescribed in FAR Clause 52.232-33 CCR can be obtained by accessing the Internet at www.ccr.gov or by calling 1-888-227-2423. Technical Cost Proposal must include Past performance on same or similar work done.. Technical cost proposal must be submitted to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, 650 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Room 3290, Washington, DC 20226 no later than August 3, 2005 4:00PM EST (Washington DC local Time). The Technical Cost Proposals and Past performance may faxed to 202-927-7311, e-mailed to brian.wilkins@atf.gov or mailed at the above address. Questions concerning this procurement maybe faxed of emailed to Brian Wilkins. SEE ATTACHED STATEMENT OF WORK. IBIS Source Code Escrow and Verification Statement of Work Version 2 Table of Contents 1 INTRODUCTION 1 1.1 Acronyms 2 2 SCOPE 3 3 VERIFICATION 3 3.1 Verify Delivered Files 4 3.2 Determine/Confirm and Recreate Build Environment 4 3.3 Build Executable Binaries from Source Code 4 3.4 Load Executables onto Test Systems 4 3.5 Test 4 4 SOURCE CODE ESCROW SERVICES 4 4.1 Escrow Agreement 5 4.2 Storage 5 4.3 Release 5 IBIS Source Code Escrow and Verification Statement of Work 1 INTRODUCTION The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (hereinafter referred to as "ATF" or "the Government") is a law enforcement organization and a component of the United States Government. ATF?s responsibilities include reducing violent crime, collecting revenue, and protecting the public. ATF enforces Federal laws and regulations relating to alcohol, tobacco, firearms, explosives, and arson by working directly and in cooperation with other Federal Government agencies and State and local law enforcement agencies to: * Suppress and prevent crime and violence through enforcement, regulation and community outreach. * Ensure fair and proper revenue collection. * Provide fair and effective industry regulation. * Support and assist Federal, State, Local and International Law Enforcement. * Provide innovative training programs in support of criminal and regulatory enforcement functions. * Help reduce the criminal use of firearms ? ATF assists other State, Local and Foreign Law Enforcement agencies in reducing crime and violence. * Provide for public safety by reducing the criminal misuse of explosives, combating arson, and remove safety hazards caused by improper and unsafe storage of explosive materials. * Assist in suppressing commercial bribery, consumer deception, and other prohibited trade practices in alcohol beverage industry by effective enforcement of the Federal Alcohol Act. In the area of firearms enforcement, the ATF Strategic Plan is to reduce gun violence in the United States and fairly and effectively regulate the legitimate firearms industry. ATF's primary targets are suspects who illegally use firearms and/or supply guns to criminals or children. One tool aiding ATF in this endeavor is the National Integrated Ballistic Information Network Program (hereinafter referred to as "the NIBIN Program"). The NIBIN Program was developed to work in concert with all of ATF's firearms enforcement initiatives. With the NIBIN Program, ATF has successfully integrated its expertise in the regulation of the firearms industry and the effective enforcement of Federal firearms laws with technological advances in the forensic ballistics examination field. This unique program uses all of the resources that ATF has to offer in working with our law enforcement counterparts to reduce firearms violence. As each fingerprint is different, a firearm leaves unique, identifiable characteristics on expelled ammunition. The NIBIN Program employs the Integrated Ballistics Identification System (IBIS) to compare images of ballistic evidence (projectiles and cartridge casings) obtained from crime scenes and recovered firearms. The IBIS System is comprised of hardware and software that performs the complete automated function of acquiring, correlating and comparing bullet/casing images, excluding microgroove and polygonal rifling irrespective of their composition or physical condition, and generates a data report of the results. As new images are entered, the IBIS System searches the existing database for possible matches that must be confirmed by a firearms examiner. As a result, the IBIS System has amassed a large ballistics image database filled with crime gun data from all over the country from which Federal, State, and local law enforcement agencies may obtain law enforcement information. With the NIBIN Program, the ATF has created a national resource that enables participating law enforcement agencies to store shooting-related data and test-fire specimen from recovered firearms in one common system capable of performing comparisons and producing probable matches. Through the NIBIN Program, the ATF is deploying ballistic imaging and comparison equipment to State and local law enforcement agencies. This equipment enables the agencies to compare firearms evidence from a large number of crimes quickly, finding potential links between crimes that would not have been connected without using the IBIS System. The NIBIN Program network also provides the capability to share data across jurisdictional lines, discovering links between crimes in different localities or different States. Automated ballistics technology is one more weapon in the arsenal of resources that ATF maintains to assist our partners, the State and local law enforcement agencies. The IBIS vendor, Forensic Technology, Inc. (FTI), has agreed to enter into an escrow agreement and deposit the IBIS System source code as well as any updates with the depository. There are currently four system types that comprise the IBIS system. The predominant, and most complex, system type is the Remote Data Acquisition Station (DAS/R). This system acquires images for both cartridge casings and bullets, stores images in an Oracle database, provides image analysis capabilities, and communicates with regional (WAN) servers. The MatchPoint system provides image analysis for images acquired on local systems as well as images imported from regional servers. Rapid Brass Input (RBI) systems acquire images for cartridge casings and communicate with DAS/R systems over a telephone modem connections. IBIS servers (SVR) correlate new images against stored data to provide links between ballistics evidence. The DAS/R, RBI, and MPO are Windows systems running Windows NT and Windows 2000. The regional servers are SGI Irix systems. The IBIS system currently uses Oracle 7 as a database. The IBIS vendor is developing four additional system types that will become part of the NIBIN / IBIS infrastructure. These are next generation systems that provide similar functionality as those currently deployed. These are known as BulletTrax, BrassTrax, PC Farm, and MatchPoint +. BulletTrax is an automated 3-D bullet imaging system. BrassTrax is an automated cartridge casing imaging system. PC Farm is a Linux based semi-modular server farm system. BrassTrax and BulletTrax both run on either Windows 2000 or Windows XP. 1.1 Acronyms This statement of work utilizes the following list of acronyms. This list is provided as a reference. FTI ? Forensic Technology, Inc. (IBIS Vendor) IBIS ? Integrated Ballistic Information System DAS/R ? Remote Data Acquisition Station, may also written as RDAS, DASR RBI ? Rapid Brass Identification MPO - MatchPoint SVR ? Correlation Server BRX ? BrassTrax BLX ? BulletTrax PCF ? PC Farm Server MPO+ - MatchPoint Plus 2 SCOPE The Government and the IBIS vendor have agreed to enter into an Escrow Agreement with an independent depository acceptable to both parties. Under such Escrow Agreement, the IBIS vendor has agreed to deposit the IBIS System source code as well as any updates there to with the depository, and shall allow the Government to have access to and use the IBIS source code under given circumstances. In order to assure the viability of the source code placed in escrow the source code, the source code must be verified to be sufficient to recreate the executables necessary for complete system functionality. This statement of work describes the two tasks of source code verification and source code escrow. Task 1: The contractor shall provide source code escrow services for the IBIS System source code for the IBIS systems used by the Government in the NIBIN program. Task 1 is a fixed-price task. If requested, the contractor shall provide escrow services for multiple years. Task 2: The contractor shall test and verify the source code placed in escrow for the IBIS Systems used by the Government in the NIBIN program. Task 2 is a time and materials task. The IBIS vendor is expected to provide annual upgrades to the IBIS system software. Additional software patches and upgrades may be issued at any time. If requested by the Government, the contractor shall conduct source code verification, as described below, on an annual basis for IBIS system upgrades for all IBIS system variants deployed at that time within NIBIN. 3 VERIFICATION The contractor shall perform third party verification of delivered source code. Verification of the source code will include the following subtasks: 1. Verify delivery of source code to be escrowed. 2. Recreate build environment 3. Compile binary executables from source code. 4. Load compiled binaries onto IBIS test systems 5. Test functionality of IBIS systems utilizing executables compiled from source code. 3.1 Verify Delivered Files The contractor shall verify that source code files in the delivered media correspond to the description of those files provided by the vendor. This work will be carried out at the contractor?s site. 3.2 Determine/Confirm and Recreate Build Environment The contractor shall determine the build environment necessary to compile the source code. The contractor will be able to contact the IBIS vendor to gather necessary information to assist in determining the build environment. The contractor shall create a build environment to compile the provided IBIS source code. The build environment shall be capable of producing exact replications of the executable IBIS software. This work will be carried out at the contractor?s site. 3.3 Build Executable Binaries from Source Code The contractor shall receive source code, and utilizing the contractor's build environment, build executable binaries suitable for loading on IBIS systems. Executables shall be compiled for all IBIS system variants, which may include: DAS/R, RBI, MPO, SVR, BRX, BLX, PCF, and MPO+ systems. This work will be carried out at the contractor?s site. 3.4 Load Executables onto Test Systems The Government will provide IBIS systems for the contractor to load the compiled executable binaries. These IBIS systems may be located in Largo, Florida, Washington, D.C., or Montreal Canada. The contractor shall load executables onto the provided IBIS system variants, which may include DAS/R, RBI, MPO, SVR, BRX, BLX, PCF, and MPO+ systems. 3.5 Test The Contractor shall perform tests to verify that compiled source code executes correctly and that the newly compiled executables function identically to existing systems. The Government will provide a test plan to verify system functionality. Testing shall be carried out at Largo, Florida, Washington, D.C., or Montreal, Canada. Testing shall be scheduled to coincide with the Government's testing program of new systems and system upgrades being conducted at vendor?s location. 4 SOURCE CODE ESCROW SERVICES The Contractor shall provide source code escrow and storage services. 4.1 Escrow Agreement The contractor shall provide a three party escrow agreement between FTI, ATF and escrow agent that will be subject to amendment by the Government. The contractor shall enter into the Government approved 3-party escrow agreement with the Government and the IBIS vendor. 4.2 Storage The Contractor shall provide secure storage of all source code material. The source code for all variants of IBIS deployed within NIBIN shall be placed in escrow. The Contractor will accept at least four (4) deposits of software updates and patches per year with no additional charge. 4.3 Release The contractor shall release all source code to the government in accordance with the Escrow Agreement The Government and the IBIS vendor have agreed to enter into an Escrow Agreement with an independent depository acceptable to both parties. Under such Escrow Agreement, the IBIS vendor will agree to deposit the IBIS System source code as well as any updates there to with the depository, and shall allow the Government to have access to and use the IBIS source code under any one of the following three (3) release conditions: 1. Failure by the IBIS vendor to substantially perform its obligations under its maintenance contract with the Government; 2. If the IBIS vendor ceases the general business of manufacturing and maintaining the IBIS System, and no other party has been assigned to take over such business; or 3. Bankruptcy of the IBIS vendor, assignment for the general benefit of the auditors, filing of a voluntary petition in bankruptcy, or any other act related to dissolution or winding up of the IBIS vendor.
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- SN00849138-W 20050720/050718211740 (fbodaily.com)
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